Launched on the Moss

'Leighton Moss Ice Age to Present Day' has now been on sale for a week and seems to be going well.

We launched it  at the RSPB visitor centre last Saturday complete with tea and world famous drizzle cake supplied by the great folk in the cafe,  and a generous speech by the reserve's manager Robin Horner. I'm delighted to say that many of the generous folk who shared their knowledge of the Moss -- and their photos -- were there to give the book a shove down the metaphorical slipway. The book is now available at the RSPB shop at Leighton Moss and at several local bookshops including Waterstone's in Kendal and Lancaster.

                                Leighton Moss Reserve Manager Robin Horner (left), me and Founding Warden at
Leighton Moss, John Wilson (Photo: Joan Bryden).

Brian Rafferty -- who took the stunning 'Running Deer' photo on the book cover, me (again) and my publisher, Anna Goddard of Carnegie Publishing. (Photo Joan Bryden)

The author (above) in full rhetorical flight (Photo: Peter Standing)

Signing a book for Robin Greaves of Yealand Conyers (above) with my mother, daughter Laura and old chum Louise Byrne looking on....and (below) another for Professor Phil Barker of Lancaster University. (Photos: Joan Bryden)